 | George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...as to character, and with but little consideration as to motives. Thus it is enacted in Georgia — "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 160 pages
...power, &c. for dispersing such assemblies, &c. 2 Brevard's Digest, 254-5. Prohibition of Self-defence. If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...such slave may be lawfully killed.' — 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. The following is a law of Georgia. ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, i.pon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 236 pages
...such slave may be lawfully killed.' — 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. The following is a law of Georgia. ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1840 - 748 pages
...of such summons before the said justice. XXIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and81"™ wtl° . . conviction before the justice or justices and freeholders, aforesaid,... | |
 | British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 308 pages
...slave may be lawfully killed.'— 2 Brevard's Digest, 231. " The following is a law of Georgia : ' If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave shall, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, suffer such punishment for the first... | |
 | Enslaved persons - 1846 - 302 pages
...&c. for dispersing such assemblies, &c. — 2 Brevard's Digest, 254-5. PROHIBITION OF SELF-DBEEKCB. If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
 | Charles Elliott - Slavery - 1850 - 358 pages
...master only, but to the will of all other white persons." (Stroud, p. 97.) An act of Georgia declares, "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial and conviction before the justice or justices, according to the directions of this act,... | |
 | Lewis W. Paine - Fugitive slaves - 1851 - 208 pages
...no difference ; if he resists, he does it at his peril. The following is the law upon this subject. "If any slave shall presume to strike any white person, such slave, upon trial, and conviction before the Justice, or Justices, according to the direction of this Act,... | |
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That if any Slave shall presume to strike any White Person, such Slave upon Trial and Conviction before the Justice or Justices according to the directions of this Act shall for the first... 
